Heart Mountain Interpretive Learning Center near Cody, Wyo.

Kevin J. Miyazaki

Heart Mountain Relocation Center, outside of Cody, Wyo., was one of 10 internment camps that held Japanese Americans forcibly relocated from the West Coast after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Many of the 14,000 internees, held here for three years, were from California. The site is now the Heart Mountain Interpretive Learning Center, which teaches the history of that time.

Heart Mountain Relocation Center, outside of Cody, Wyo., was one of 10 internment camps that held Japanese Americans forcibly relocated from the West Coast after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Many of the 14,000 internees, held here for three years, were from California. The site is now the Heart Mountain Interpretive Learning Center, which teaches the history of that time. (Kevin J. Miyazaki)

With 740 acres behind barbed wire, Heart Mountain was intended to hold 10,000 citizens, but during its three years, it held more than 14,000 people, including 6,448 from Los Angeles County. The main building of the learning center is designed to look like the barracks in which internees lived.

With 740 acres behind barbed wire, Heart Mountain was intended to hold 10,000 citizens, but during its three years, it held more than 14,000 people, including 6,448 from Los Angeles County. The main building of the learning center is designed to look like the barracks in which internees lived. (Kevin J. Miyazaki)